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  <h1 class="Head">Perspectives</h1>
  <p class="Para">On the <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <strong>General &gt;
  Perspectives</strong></a> preference page, you can manage the various perspectives defined in the Workbench.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Option</p>
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          <p class="Para">Description</p>
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          <p class="Para">Default</p>
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          <p class="Para">Open a new perspective</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">Use this option to set what happens when you open a new perspective. Do you want the
          perspective opened within the current Workbench window or opened in a new window?</p>
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        <td>In the same window</td>
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          <p class="Para">New project options</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">Use this option to specify the perspective behavior when a new project is created. You can
          set it to switch the current perspective to be the one associated with the project type and open the
          perspective in the same Workbench window as the current one, switch the perspective and open it in a new
          Workbench window, or not to switch perspectives at all.</p>
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        <td>Open perspective in the same window</td>
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  <h2>Available Perspectives Options:</h2>
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          <p class="Para">Option</p>
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          <p class="Para">Description</p>
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          <p class="Para">Default</p>
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          <p class="Para">Make Default</p>
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          <p class="Para">Sets the selected perspective as the default perspective.</p>
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          <p class="Para">Resource</p>
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          <p class="Para">Revert</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">Resets the definition of the selected perspective to the default configuration. This option
          is only applicable to built-in perspectives that have been overwritten using Window &gt; Perspective &gt;
          Save Perspective As...</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">n/a</p>
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          <p class="Para">Delete</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">Deletes the selected perspective. This option is only applicable to user-defined perspectives
          (built-in perspectives can not be deleted).</p>
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        <td rowspan="1" colspan="1" valign="top" align="left">
          <p class="Para">n/a</p>
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  <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-6.htm">Perspectives</a>
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